http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ Extreme Programming Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:01:57 GMT Tim Ottinger http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150939 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150939 Tim Ottinger http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/ http://agileotter.blogspot.com/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:03:27 GMT Steven Gordon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150938 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150938 ... Every project encounters obstacles. In the vast majority of cases, the obstacles can be cleared given determination, courage and organizational support Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:30:58 GMT Adam Sroka http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150937 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150937 ... I'm not currently a member of IEEE, and I'm not inclined to pay to read this. However, I wanted to point out that your abstract is incorrect. The Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:40:52 GMT zdnfa http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150936 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150936 Dear all, thanks for your reply your questions could be answered through reading this article www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4520396/4529902/04530347.pdf but for Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:39:10 GMT zaidoun alzoabi http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150935 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150935     Dear all, thanks for your reply   your questions could be answered through reading this article Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:55:01 GMT Adam Sroka http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150934 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150934 ... 10-20 programmers is /huge/. In my experience XP teams are successful with far fewer. ... Why? Why would you want your team to be bigger than that? What Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:37:28 GMT Slava Imeshev http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150933 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150933 Along the same lines, to what area of knowledge would a work on Ph.D. thesis on XP improvement belong? Psychology? Business administration? Regards, Slava Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:50:42 GMT Steven Gordon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150932 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150932 ... No downside for us, maybe. However, they do not grant PhDs for confirming something that is generally believed, especially if the basis of that Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:53:42 GMT Tim Ottinger http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150931 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150931 The reason for small teams is because communication breaks down as teams size up. In other words communication is maximized by intentionally keeping team size Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:54:02 GMT George Dinwiddie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150930 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150930 ... Andre, I've never found the Tuckman model very helpful for enabling teams. Just because they're storming, it doesn't mean they'll proceed to norming. You Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:54:58 GMT Steven Gordon http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150929 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150929 PhD research should go beyond what has already been done. How would your research surpass Balancing Agility and Discipline By Barry W Boehm, Richard Turner? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:51:41 GMT Ron Jeffries http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150928 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150928 Hello, zaidoun. My biggest and first question is to understand the extent to which you and your colleagues have actually done XP as it exists. Some smaller Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:50:59 GMT Chet Hendrickson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150927 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150927 Hello Zaidoun, When you say research, do you mean that you have found a statistically significant difference in the success rates of large teams that are doing Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:33:13 GMT zdnfa http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150926 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150926 Dear all, i want to share with you the idea of my PhD. research the idea is that Kent Beck says that XP works fine for projects of 10 to 20 programmers, but Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:52:15 GMT D. André Dhondt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150925 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/message/150925 I've been reading a lot on this subject lately, and wanted to mention one of the presuppositions that I missed when I first started reading some of the